Entertainment For Lively Minds
Twenty miles from London and no sign of Dick...
Shall we have a look who is treading the board of provincial theatres this year? Not to scoff for tis good, honest end-of-the-pier silliness and probably bankrolls a lot of other loss-making theatre activities throughout the year.
Once again the audition process consists of one question, have you ever been on television at some time since the 1950s? Although there are notable exceptions.
Birmingham has a quite astonishing 'Dick' which will be ably handled by Joan Collins, Nigel Havers, Julian Clary and if that isn't enough you get Jeffrey 'Put the funny Policemans hat on Spike' Holland and the only man to turn down a part on Extras..Keith Harris. It was alright for Bob DeNiro but Harris had his reputation to think of.
Darlington has David Essex, and The mighty Grumbleweeds.
Hull residents can enjoy Chico, Jimmy Corkhill and Stu 'Crush a Grape' Francis.
Doncaster will be finding a way to shoehorn Jimmy Cricket and The Honey Monster into the story of Aladdin
H from Steps is in Beauty and the Beast in Grimsby
Toyah will be turning suburbia upside down in Sleeping Beauty in Malvern
The One and Only Chesney Hawkes is spending his Xmas Northampton as Aladdin
Schnorbitz is in Snow White at St Helens
Don't worry The Krankies are on...Glasgow of course, with John 'Jazz Hands' Barrowman.
Want More? Wondering where Billy Pearce is on? Salute them all here:
http://www.its-behind-you.com/wherearethey10.html
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Air brushed or not
Joan still looks great.
How do you do that?
Wrap the text around the pictures, I mean.
I assumed it was a feature available only to the staff and management
You can do it
If you want to know how to do stuff with photos and text etc, this thread here is very good, in addition to the website FAQs.
Then you need to set the photo left or right with the following code:
<?img src="http://whatevertheaddressisforyourpic.jpg" align="left"> (Take out the ? though - I had to put that in there to stop the code working automatically and so you could see it!)
The problem with making the text run around the photos in replies to a post is that there is no border, as you can see. It works automatically in an original post (as above), so it looks nice and neat, but not in replies (like in mine, here). Don't know whether Fraser or anyone has a remedy for this?
Thanks
for the info. Much appreciated.
I think I can remedy that
Let me work on it.
Thanks, Fraser
That would be useful.
I used to do stuff like that...
...with 'hspace="?"', Fraser - would that not still work?
I'd rather
Have a solution that worked without anyone having to add extra HTML themselves - I should be able to automatically add some padding in the css.
A couple of years ago I went to
my first panto for about 20 years, at Wimbledon, with my kids. It starred Henry 'Fonzie' Winkler, who obviously didn't have a clue about panto, and alleged king of panto Bobby Davro. It was utterly dismal.
Errrrr
Schnorbitz is in Snow White at St Helens?
Yep. Possibly not the original Schnorbitz
Yep. Possibly not the original Schnorbitz
I can honestly say
that I have never heard of any of the actors on that poster.
Shame on You,Johan
Not even "The Incredible" Shaun Mason
http://www.allstarscasting.co.uk/index.php?option=com_clients&token=IYzY...
All of the actors on the Bill seem to be from this agency. Maybe they got a discount for bulk buying ?
Heyyyy!
He was a complete stranger to panto and, at short notice, a replacement for David Hasselhoff. He must have got better as he has played every year since that at various theatres round the country.
Schnorbitz was a replacement for David Hasselhoff ???
I s'pose times have been tough since Bernie went to the great Palladium in the sky.
(No subject)
Wondering where Billy Pearce is on?
funny you mentioned it. Was asking 'er indoors only yesterday.We decided on King's Lynn as Quadrophenia bit part player John "Nasty nick" Altman is Headlining.Though some bloke from The Flying Pickets is on at Porthcawl. Tough decision.
Aladdin at The Theatre Royal Bath
"Starring" Ricky Groves from Eastenders, CBBC's Gemma Hunt, Jon Monie and "back by popular demand" Chris Harris, no me neither. Still we do have Spamalot coming up soon with Marcus Brigstocke
Chris Harris...
...seems to have a mafia-like grip on Bath panto - writing, directing and awarding himself the most stage time.
I've seen him in three, and found him to be buttock-clenchingly unfunny and palpably desperate to seize the limelight at any opportunity.
The legend that is Justin Fletcher
is in Reading doing Sleeping Beauty. We're going.
And Jane, from Rod, Jane & Freddie is in it as well. And someone from Emmerdale.
Fletcher=Legend
We have thought about making the trek to Reading with the little one because seeing JF in the flesh might blow her mind.
Legend is not
the word which springs to mind whenever he pops up on Cbeebies in our house.
CBeebies
There's a lot of expensive programming on CBeebies and it's a pretty fine station generally (except Numberjacks, total pants). However Something Special is the only thing on telly that makes my two year old literally jump up and down with excitement. It's a simple, kind show. I think JF's a great communicator for little kids who doesn't patronise (unlike Nisha with her panda friends, Mish, Moosh and Mogo).
You Sign!
Our local
panto appears to have half the actors from Waterloo Road.
Which seems to me to be the casting equivalent of kicking a man when he's already down.
He's behind you!
*cough*
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/the-fonz-stacey-shipman-olive-butl...
So's he!
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/whos-panto-year
But where oh where is Kenny Cantor? (Behind you!)
Well, he's been quite a busy master of mirth of late. Earlier this month he was to be found tickling the hapless patients' funny bones at the James Paget Hospital (if variety therapy hasn't caught on nationwide yet, it certainly should):
Then, two days later (this is just like a U2 tour, eh) he was at Kessingland Sports & Social Centre in An Evening at the Varieties, in which "Kenny and friends take you from the flirty 30's to the nifty 90's", possibly overlooking that "the collapsing-from-exhaustion-at-a-dustbowl-dance-marathon 30's" might have done that decade more justice.
And tonight - yes, tonight - he's back at his venue of choice, the KSSC, for the Charity Mind Body & Spirit Fayre ("loads of stalls, healing, crystals, plus much more").
But as for his panto commitments, I can't find a thing. Sadly, it looks as though - shame on you, Britain - his seminal Twankey isn't going to get an outing this year.
Would you say
that a lack of information on his panto commitments is a fundamental omission?
[stuffs hand in pockets and backs away nonchalantly, whistling and pretending to look at objects in the middle distance between 10 and 2 o'clock]
I think we've hit the limits of my knowledge of popular
culture. Lewisham has Linda Robson who was on that kids' show with "flintlock" after that.... oh hell this is worse than that dancing programme... I haven't a clue about any of this lot....
Have to admit last panto I went to was in swindon and featured "Grotbags" from the "Emu's Pink Windmill" show. It may have been "Mother Goose" which is the one about revolutionary Russia I think....
Notable absence of any Big Brother contestants
this year which I think is encouraging for people who have actually trained to be actors.
I did note quite a few 'stars' of X Factor and Britains Got Talent though.
Now that's magic! Oh no it isn't...
Here in Redhill we've somehow managed to get Paul Daniels and the Lovely Debbie McGee in Jack and the Beanstalk. I'm quite tempted to go...
I like the fact...
...that there is still the famous local, who does panto (writes, produces and plays the dame normally) every year and no-one from elsewhwere has ever heard of him. We had that in Chelmsford when I were a lass.
The extremely talented Clive Rowe does Hackney every year, and he is marvellous. Honestly, it is great.
Some actors are just great at Panto.
I've seen Roger Allam play a villain in one and he was ace. For years in Scotland the late great Rikki Fulton did a wonderful job. Sadly Gerard Kelly, a man shaping up to be his equal, died suddenly last week. But panto, when done well, is wonderful. Its just doing panto well strikes me as a hard thing to quantify.